I grew Charlotte and Desiree last year and was very pleased with them and I’m hoping the others I’ve chosen this time will be as good. I’m planning on buying a ‘wild card’ at the Hampshire Potato Day on Saturday week – maybe a coloured variety if anyone has any recommendations?

What varieties are you growing this year?

Update: Mal has done a great post on coloured potato varieties to help me find a favourite. There’s also a discussion started on UK Veg Gardeners, so join in.

Lastly, thanks to Jo over at The Good Life for The Stylish Blogger award. This is the first time that I, or anything I’m associated with, has been called stylish so thank-you Jo, I am honoured. Jo has picked 15 blogs to pass this award onto. Now I can’t separate 15 out from all the blogs I read, you know who you are from the links from this site and my visits and comments.

We’re up in Derby this weekend so no work will be done on the plot. Hope you all have a great weekend!

Congrats on the award! I’m still waiting for my seed potatoes – I’m only growing First Earlies, only a half plot so not much room really I so many other things I want to grow… I’ve gone for “Swift” because I can plant them closer together which makes better use of the space available – that’s the theory anyway… Have a great weekend.

I got a similar box to yours on Tuesday – but all baby new ones so I still need to get some maincrops. I’m hoping I can make it to our local potato day next month – although there is a distinct possibility that all the choice will paralyse me!

I’m also growing Charlotte, Kestrel and Desiree all of which I’ve grown before along with the first early Vales Emerald. It’ll be be interesting to see how we compare.
Well done on being given the stylish blogger award.
Enjoy your weekend away!

You may well be right there patience is not my strong point when it comes to sowing seeds. At least I’ll have something to keep an eye on and nurture and I can always sow a few more in a month or so. I’ll call it an experiment to find the optimum sowing time!!